tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 17 18:18:49 1995
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Re: Coffee
On Wed, 17 May 1995, Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
> I received the following message (see below) from
> <[email protected]>, Nathan Nesje. My first reaction was to send him
> the sad news that we don't have terms for such things. But then, since I am not
> a coffee drinker (as I believe I've brazenly admitted to this list before) I
> really don't know what "latte" or "cappuccino" even mean! So, maybe they CAN be
> translated.
Cappuccino is espresso topped with steam-frothed milk. Espresso is
coffee made by forcing steam through finely-ground beans.
Latte is pretty much the same thing as cappuccino, but more milk is added.
Unfortunately, we don't have a word for MILK!
You could probably call espresso something like {SeSqa'vIn}, but without
a word for milk, I don't think you could come up with a very good
translation for cappuccino or latte.
> Since they're offering a trade of some coffee (which could be brought to the
> qep'a') I thought I'd open it up to any qa'vIn tlhutlhwI'pu' who have an idea.
> Kick it around the list for a while, and then I'll send in a reply.
qa'vIn lumechqangchugh vaj mayqu' 'e' vIQub! qa'vIn tlhutlhwI'na' jIH. If
you can get a word for milk out of Okrand, I think we could come up a
suitable translation and score some coffee for the qep'e'. {{:-)
> Lawrence
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- From: "Lawrence M. Schoen" <lawrence>